Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the speed with which it spread, the fighting was still indeterminate. There had been no big set battles, certainly none with crack ARVN outfits like the 1st Division. "The ARVN hasn't stopped the [North Vietnamese] drive," said a U.S. officer in Saigon last week, "but the initial surge has ended. So far, continued this thing has had peaks and valleys. But the peaks haven't been too high, and the valleys haven't been too low." The big peaks, evidently, were still to come...
...acreage claimed by tenants, landowners are being compensated in bonds and cash, payments spread out over an eleven-year period; the U.S. Treasury will pick up at least 75% of the $727 million total bill...
...Hadrian's Tomb were translated into a crushing, megalithic rock pile that dwarfed the tatterdemalion beggars at its foot; such Roman monuments as the Pyramid of Cestius, which in real life is as inconspicuous as any pyramid can reasonably be, rivaled the Pyramid of Cheops in height and spread. This kind of heroic misinformation provoked some murmuring from English dilettanti who, arriving in Rome armed with nothing but their recollections of Piranesi's engravings, were disappointed by the city. But the point was made, the dream fixed. Moreover, it survived. There is a long history of architectural fantasy...
...most numerous today are the ASHKENAZIC Jews, who became an important group in the Rhineland about the 10th century. They take their name from the medieval Hebrew name for Germany, Ashkenaz. The Ashkenazim, who spread across Europe and to North and South America, suffered most of the casualties in the Hitler years, but still account for some 84% of the world's Jews...
...foremost moviemaker; in Winchester, England. A devout Methodist with a family fortune derived from flour mills, J. (for Joseph) Arthur Rank entered the film business in the '30s to produce pictures that would compete with Hollywood and be morally uplifting. "I believe the best way we can spread the gospel of Christ," he said, "is through films." He made such classics as Great Expectations, Hamlet and In Which We Serve, and increased his fortune to an estimated $250 million...